Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria; hybrid work options

Company

hirify.global is an experience innovation company that combines data, AI, creativity, and technology to help leading brands create digital experiences and drive transformation.

What you will do

• Design, build, roll out, and maintain Playwright automation frameworks using TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Test responsive web interfaces, APIs, and microservice-based systems, extending coverage to mobile when required.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, and clients on BDD and explain quality risks and technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Diagnose flaky and intermittent failures by identifying root causes rather than relying on retries.
• Use AI coding agents for test design, authoring, and maintenance, while defining prompts, instruction files, and review gates.
• Coach colleagues and contribute to QA community practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of test automation experience, including 2+ years of hands-on production experience with Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Strong command of Playwright fixtures, locator strategy, auto-waiting, network interception and mocking, trace-based debugging, and parallel execution.
• Experience testing responsive and mobile-web behavior using device emulation, viewports, touch, and cross-browser testing.
• Proven experience defining and implementing automation framework architecture, not only extending an existing framework.
• Experience with API automation, microservices testing, HTTP, and network inspection tools.
• CI/CD experience with a major pipeline tool and practical BDD experience in an Agile team.
• Ability to demonstrate an AI-assisted testing practice, including generating tests with AI and identifying tests that pass without proving meaningful behavior.
• Confidence to challenge from a testing perspective and curiosity to become a subject-matter expert quickly.

Nice to have

• Native mobile automation on iOS and/or Android, ideally with Appium and WebdriverIO.
• Experience with another automation stack, such as Selenium-based or non-JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience building or orchestrating multi-step AI agent workflows for test generation, execution, or triage.
• Performance or cloud testing experience.
• Mentoring experience, conference talks, or blogging.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work options, 25 vacation days, and a focus on work-life balance.
• Co-subsidized transportation, Multisport cards, and premium health insurance.
• Training support for technical events, courses, and certifications.
• Personal career development roadmap guided by performance evaluations.
• Psychological consultations, a comfortable office, and team events.
• Inclusive, values-driven culture supporting creativity, diversity, autonomy, continuous learning, and professional growth.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV covering relevant experience and expertise.
• Applications are reviewed based on skills, experience, and potential; age, gender, marital status, and headshots are not required.
• Reasonable interview accommodations can be requested in the application or from the Talent Partner.